These are two good cents :-) The sort of - transparency, I guess - that you advocate would have been useful to me. We had a rapist in the area when I was about 14, too. My mom said years later that they were just starting to give me more freedom when they had to limit it because of him. But I never saw the "more freedom" part (maybe I blinked), just the rules about not being out alone after dark, even to the mall three blocks away. It wasn't horribly onerous because they were much more relaxed about things like letting me stay out late at parties (if they knew the parents and knew I had a safe ride home) but still, if I'd known the reasoning and seen the changes, I would have been more inclined to believe them when they said that they "trusted me, just not everyone else".
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Date: 2007-01-09 03:54 pm (UTC)